asseverated

I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with ''she asseverated,'' and had to stop reading to get the dictionary.

Wright's Writing Corner: I Have Met The Enemy And It Is…Elmore Leonard arhyalon 2010

Broder asseverated, as if it were true, that special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald had exonerated Rove because "In fact, the prosecutor concluded that there was no crime; hence, no indictment."

John Seery: Harvard, Say It Ain't So! 2008

I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with “she asseverated,” and had to stop reading to get the dictionary.

Words of the wise one | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2006

I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with she asseverated, and had to stop reading to get the dictionary.

Ten guidelines for better writing - that work DAVID BISHOP 2007

"It is profound what has happened," Rush asseverated when I asked for his reflections on the past four decades.

Four Decades of Conservative Journalism 2007

“Amen!” asseverated his wife, and the daughter, Hester, or Esta, as she was called by the family, moved by the need of as much public support as possible for all of them — echoed it after her.

An American Tragedy 2004

Now whether that word hath origin in a Greek term meaning a conflict, as the best-read boys asseverated, or whether it is nothing more than a figure of similitude, from the beating arms of a mill, such as I have seen in counties where are no waterbrooks, but folk make bread with wind — it is not for a man devoid of scholarship to determine.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

He still asseverated that it was a land of gold, and he believed that if he could get to Egypt the rest would be easy.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

They descended, passing the man with the pail, who again asseverated that he had let no intruder pass, down to the commissionaire and the hovering chestnut man, who rigidly reasserted their own watchfulness.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

“I did, Laura!” asseverated Pin, on the brink of tears.

The Getting of Wisdom 2003